NEWS

14 PhD projects supervised by LSRE-LCM researchers have been granted by FCT

September 1, 2021

LSRE-LCM congratulates the 13 researchers that were granted PhD scholarships in the 2021 national FCT call:

Ana Carolina Lima - Supervisors: Filomena Barreiro (CIMO), Arantzazu Santamaria (CIMO), Madalena Dias

Agustina Olivera - Supervisors: Vítor Vilar, Manuel Andrés Rodrigo (UCLM-Spain)

Cristiana Gomes - Supervisors: Alexandre Ferreira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Vítor Vilar

Desiree Silva - Supervisor: Vítor Vilar

Fabiane Lira - Supervisors: Vítor Vilar, Tânia Silva

Giovana Colucci - Supervisors: Filomena Barreiro (CIMO), Alírio Rodrigues

Leonardo Delgado - Supervisosr: Vítor Vilar, Francisca Moreira

Lucas D’Avila - Supervisor: Vítor Vilar, Madalena Alves (UM)

Luís Miguel Oliveira - Supervisors: Idelfonso Nogueira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Alírio Rodrigues

Marisa Gomes - Supervisors: Filipe Mergulhão (LEPABE), Fernando Pereira, Salomé Soares

Mafalda Pina - Supervisors: Salomé Soares, Yury V. Kolen’ko (INL)

Pedro Velho Ferreira - Supervisors: Eugénia Macedo, Elena Costas

Sara Soares - Supervisors: Olga Nunes (LEPABE), Célia Manaia (UCP-ESB), Vítor Vilar

Vinicius Santana - Supervisors: Idelfonso Nogueira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Alírio Rodrigues

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa grants the title Honorary Member to the Portuguese Chemical Society

August 5, 2021

The Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) has been awarded Membro Honorário da Ordem da Instrução Pública, a Portuguese honorary order for high service rendered in education and teaching. Prof. Joaquim Faria, Vice-President of SPQ since 2016, was present at the award ceremony held at the Palácio de Belém by the President of the Republic.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Carneiro M.A., Silva T.A., Teixeira P.J.S., Boaventura R.A.R., Botelho C.M.S., Pintor A.M.A.. New insights on antimony removal and recovery from water and wastewater using iron-coated cork granulates: Desorption on batch and fixed-bed column systems. Chemical Engineering Science, 296, 120207, 2024

Domingues P.S., Sousa H.P., Oliveira N.S., Ribeiro A.M., Ferreira A.. Determination of the biochemical methane potential of swine hydrolyzate. Renewable Energy, 235, 121287, 2024

Matos J., Santos R.J., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B.. Chaos and mixing in NETmix. AIChE Journal, 70, e18461, 2024

Batool S., Schubert J.S., Ayala P., Saito H., Sampaio M.J., Da Silva E.S., Silva C.G., Faria J.L., Eder D., Cherevan A.. A thiomolybdate cluster for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution: comparison of homogeneous and heterogeneous approaches. Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 8, 1225 - 1235, 2024

Restivo J., Orge C.A., Soares O.S.G.P., Pereira M.F.R.. A review of current and prospective catalytic routes for the management of PFAs contamination in water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12, 112859, 2024

APPROVED PROJECTS

SWMOF - Water capture from atmospheric humidity using ecological MOFs and integration with intelligent water distribution systems. Reference: Water4All/0003/2022. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Water4All - Water4All Partnership (co-funded by Horizon Europe). Starting Date: 2024/04/01. Duration: 36 months.

ReWateR - Recovery of Wastewater Resources in Agriculture. Reference: 82343. Funded by: “La Caixa” Foundation, INCF - Incoming Fellowship 2023. Starting Date: 2024/04/01. Duration: 36 months.

ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals. Reference: ERC - 101039270. Funded by: European Comission, Horizon Europe | ERC | STARTING GRANTS. Starting Date: 2023/12/31. Duration: 60 months.

NEWater - Unconventional, natural and low-energy solutions for managing water sources. Reference: Water4All/0002/2022. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Water4All - Water4All Partnership (co-funded by Horizon Europe). Starting Date: 2023/12/01. Duration: 36 months.

RESURGENCE - Industrial Water Circularity: Reuse, resource recovery and energy efficiency for greener digitised EU process. Reference: 101138097. Funded by: European Comission, Horizonte Europa | Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space. Starting Date: 2023/12/01. Duration: 48 months.

THESIS DEFENSES

Liandra Gracher Teixeira
Anthocyanin-loaded double emulsions for food applications: Color stabilization and emulgels for customized 3D-printing

Giovana Colucci
Lignin-based Pickering Stabilizers for Innovative Cosmetic Applications

Paula Verônica Remor
Cork-Based Permeable Reactive Barrier Coupled with Electrokinetics for the Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Organic Pollutants

Pedro Velho Ferreira
Integrated Experimental, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Greener Solvents: Extraction of Antioxidants